belch
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Behind them the water is a luminescent strip of blue, abutting a silhouetted skyline in which many of the buildings belch smoke; a few of the industrial structures spew fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hence it all but backtracking on its emissions reductions and climate change mitigation goals, just so users can belch out more fake, dangerously misleading images and videos.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
These landfills also belch methane, a powerful, planet-warming gas, on average at almost three times the rate reported to federal regulators, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
About 12% of ruminants' gross energy intake goes into digestive processes that generate methane, which the cows belch into the air.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2024
In a few minutes she sat him up and he let out a loud belch.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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He includes these episodes in the film, shot in stark black-and-white thermal photography — almost like an X-ray world — punctuated by some of composer Levi’s most disturbing noises, like belches from hell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
At any given moment, Earth’s closest star belches fast, blisteringly hot particles known as the solar wind into space.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022
Thanks to their methane-rich belches, cattle are the largest producers of agricultural greenhouse gasses on the planet.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
Before Ma can answer, the ground beneath our feet shudders as the volcano belches out more lava and smoke.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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On the train journey through steel country, he watched with awe the huge industrial furnaces that belched smoke and fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Sections of charred scaffolding fell from the burning apartment blocks in hellish scenes late on Wednesday, as flames inside apartments sometimes belched out through windows into a night sky that glowed orange.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Gutted and blackened by fire, the nursing home belched smoke as a fire crew doused the last stubborn flames lapping at what remained of the roof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
In recent episodes, Bercow’s oratorial prowess came into full flower, as he belched forth merciless diatribes that made several bystanders go cross-eyed.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
"Excuse me," I belched, and quickly covered my mouth with both hands, nodded my agreement to their assessment of my character, and ran down the hall to the bathroom.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
AFP journalists heard blasts in Bahrain's capital Manama, and saw black smoke belching from a major oil terminal in the United Arab Emirates port city of Fujairah.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
But he’s also puckish – sylph-like and otherworldly, seductive and repellent, as likely to swaddle Sarah in her heart’s desire as he is to toss her into the belching, farting Bog of Eternal Stench.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
Oil giant Phillips 66, operator of a massive oil refinery near the Port of Los Angeles, has unveiled plans to replace its belching smokestacks and hulking steel tanks with stores, restaurants and soccer fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
No amount of natural wonders, of rigid cliffs and belching waters, of smoking springs could even engage my attention while that pandemonium went on.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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